About
Hi, I'm Maria.
Industrial engineer, former product manager in the corporate world and someone who functioned very well for years while my system was running on reserve underneath.
Let's talkAbout
Industrial engineer, former product manager in the corporate world and someone who functioned very well for years while my system was running on reserve underneath.
Let's talkTwo worlds that belong together
Today I bring together strategic thinking from the business world with a deep understanding of the body and the nervous system. Scientifically grounded, humanly accompanied.
I work with women whose work and results depend directly on their own capacity. Women who seem to have it all figured out. Who function, perform, carry responsibility, and at the same time sense that something isn't right. Who often think the problem is themselves, that they need to pull themselves together more.
What they've built is often based on pushing, overriding, functioning at full capacity. When the body eventually stops cooperating, it has a direct impact on everything they've created for themselves. The career, the business, the relationships.
There is another way. There is a path to living and working in alignment with female biology and your own nervous system. No one taught us this. It's something we can learn.
My work is about reconnection. With your own body, your own energy, a sense of inner safety. So that life doesn't only sound good from the outside, but actually feels that way.
Where it began
Just before finishing school, it came out of nowhere. Nobody could see it from the outside. In my body it was very clear. Inner restlessness, tension, with no obvious source.
It felt so uncomfortable to show this "weakness" that I hid it perfectly. Nobody around me would have guessed how I really felt inside. Today I know that was nonsense. Back then I started to look closer. At my body, my thoughts, what was happening inside me.
That is how a journey began that has shaped me until today.
The classic path
I studied industrial engineering and later worked as a product manager. A lot of responsibility, many projects, many decisions. Structured, organized, reliable.
Inside, something else was building up. I was in a low-grade state of stress almost all the time. My head was always on, planning, optimizing. And my body just kept going along with it.
There was no big crash. No burnout, no breakdown. I kept functioning, and that was the trickiest part. You tell yourself for a long time that everything is fine.
Today
Whether you run your own business or hold a senior position: what you deliver depends on how you are inside. When your system runs in protective mode long-term, it costs you more than quality of life. It costs you clarity, creativity, decision-making capacity, and ultimately the very thing you've worked to build.
Working with me means leaving that mode behind without restructuring your entire life. We work with concrete tools, honest self-awareness and a body that cooperates instead of resisting.
It's about building success on a foundation that holds, even when the next hard day comes.
"Energy doesn't come from pressure. Clarity doesn't come from more thinking. Change happens when we work with our body, not against it."
Maria Lippold
Training & Background
My work has grown over years. From training, education and seminars, and most importantly from my own lived experience.
Training in solution-oriented counseling and conversation work.
Holistic women's health and integrative approaches.
Brain- and nervous-system-based training, current scientific standards.
Deep work with the autonomic nervous system, based on Stephen Porges.
Somatic tools, breathwork, co-regulation and self-regulation.
Certified teacher, including hormone and prenatal yoga.
Body-oriented work, body awareness and somatic practice.
Relational and language competence based on Marshall Rosenberg.
Strategic thinking, structured work, several years of corporate product management.
Values
Simple, understandable content. No coaching jargon, no buzzwords. What I say is meant to land with you.
No quick fixes, no short-term solutions. What we build is meant to last and to integrate into your real life.
Your body is the foundation, not the obstacle. It is the resource we work with.
Responsibility without pressure. Empowering, not demanding. You lead yourself, I support the process.
Against hustle culture, against constant pressure, for real health and a different idea of success.
Neurobiology in everyday language. Depth without abstraction. Closeness without losing professionalism.
In an unhurried Discovery Call we see where you are and whether we're a good fit.
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